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On February 28, an article on BBC Sport featured an exclusive interview with an upbeat Stuart Harvey, founder of OWNAFC. Describing his app as “the ultimate experience of a being chairman” without “the boardroom nonsense we see at many clubs”, he talked of how it would allow shareholders to have a say in all aspects […]

Over the 20 or so years I have been in the industry, one of the most contentious issues regarding web design has been the cost. How much does a website cost? How much is too much? How much is too little? Web design is a

It’s no secret that the most important part of a website, from a search engine perspective, is its text. The words on the page are what Google indexes, and what we absorb when we visit sites for information or

Posted by John Murray

Features

There are those who say you should never mix business with pleasure but, at Engage Web, we don’t believe that at all. That’s probably because the vast majority of our work is a pleasure, especially when you’re designing websites, writing blogs about holidays or cars, making videos and managing social media. It’s hardly manual labour, […]

I love a good bit of satire. Whether it’s old episodes of Spitting Image, Aristophanes’ ‘The Frogs’ or a bit of the Daily Mash – nothing beats good satire. The problem is, does satire remain as satire when too many people believe it? For instance, the spoof news website BFN was originally set up with […]

Posted by Darren Jamieson

Social media

A tweet from the Google SearchLiaison account on Tuesday announced that a “broad core algorithm update” took place this week. This week, we released a broad core algorithm update, as we do several times per year. Our guidance about such updates remains as we’ve covered before. Please see these tweets for more about that:https://t.co/uPlEdSLHoXhttps://t.co/tmfQkhdjPL — […]

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Who remembers the Yellow Pages directory being the size of a small family car? With the first issue being distributed to UK homes more than 50 years ago, the business phone book known as Yellow Pages used to be a substantial piece of

Once Christmas and New Year have come and gone, January can feel like a month where not a lot happens. Clearly, though, there are certain subjects on our minds at this time of year, and a look at Google Trends suggests that some industries should be aware of what’s going on in the world of […]

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Infographics

Two years ago we produced our first ‘brew cards’ infographic, to help explain the complex rules we have here at Engage Web for brew making in the office. Over time our rules have evolved and grown, partly to make the selection process more exciting and partly to counter for the rule-bending shown by our project […]

In a world saturated with adverts, stories and statistics, and with the internet only a mere click away, there is a real danger of consumers being overloaded – trawling through so much information can be monotonous. A well-designed infographic, however, can set companies apart from their competitors and should also enhance brand awareness. So many […]

As a result of the many different ways people can engage with your website we decided to produce this (slightly disturbing) infographic showing how your website can stimulate the ‘share cortex’ of the brain. Social media is such an important part of Internet marketing these days you need to take advantage of it to make […]

Posted by Darren Jamieson

Company News

Yesterday morning had a sense of ‘back to reality’ for many people, who woke up to an overcast, drizzly start to the day for the first time in weeks, coupled with the realisation that England had gone out of the World Cup, albeit a bit later than they usually do. For the team at Engage […]